"
"Why?"
"To see if he would cease his attentions to Madge, and to tell him that
she was engaged to me."
"And what did he say?"
"Laughed at me. Curse him."
"You had high words, evidently?"
Brian laughed bitterly.
"Yes, we had."
"Did anyone hear you?"
"The landlady did, I think. I saw her in the passage as I left the
house."
"The prosecution will bring her forward as a witness."
"Very likely," indifferently.
"Did you say anything likely to incriminate yourself?" Fitzgerald
turned away his head.
"Yes," he answered in a low voice, "I spoke very wildly--indeed, I did
not know at the time what I said."
"Did you threaten him?"
"Yes, I did. I told him I would kill him if he persisted in his plan of
marrying Madge."
"Ah! if the landlady can swear that she heard you say so, it will form
a strong piece of evidence against you. So far as I can see, there is
only one defence, and that is an easy one--you must prove an ALIBI."
No answer.
"You say you did not come back and get into the cab?" said Calton,
watching the face of the other closely.
"No, it was some one else dressed like me."
"And you have no idea who it was?"
"No, I have not."
"Then, after you left Whyte, and walked along Russel! Street, where did
you go?"
"I can't tell you."
"Were you intoxicated?"
"No!" indignantly
"Then you remember?"
"Yes."
"And where were you?"
"I can't tell you.
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